La disparition de Raila Odinga en octobre 2025 invite non seulement au deuil, mais aussi à un bilan. Dans cette méditation politique, Tafahri Munjatta examine le paradoxe de la figure d'opposition la plus durable du Kenya – un homme qui parlait le langage de la révolution tout en évoluant dans l'architecture du pouvoir. Cet essai retrace comment le mythe de Raila reflète le projet moral inachevé de la démocratie kenyane : éternellement résistante, éternellement en négociation, sans jamais (…)

Dimanche dernier, le 18 janvier, le premier tour de l'élection présidentielle a eu lieu au Portugal, dont le second tour se tiendra le 8 février.
Un ancien dirigeant du Parti socialiste et le chef des néofascistes se disputeront ce second tour d'une élection présidentielle qui confirme le virage à droite du Portugal. La concentration des voix sur le PS a relégué la gauche à de nouveaux minima historiques.
La somme des voix du gouvernement de droite et des partis ultralibéraux et (…)

A GOVERNMENT THAT claims the right to blow up unarmed boats at sea in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific will also feel free to kill its population at home.
A government that kidnaps the ruler of a foreign country, seizes its resources, and proclaims the intention to “run the country for years” will trample the democratic freedoms and civil rights of its own population with equal arrogance.
The violent terror campaign unleashed against immigrants has resulted in the murder of Renee Good, (…)

At the moment, Minneapolis is the frontline of the resistance.
President Donald Trump is at war with Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, whom he hates as a political rival, and at war with liberal Minneapolis, the state's largest city. Trump has now sent 3,000 agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into Minneapolis, 1,000 more than there were before ICE murdered activist Renée Nicole Good. There are now more ICE agents in Minneapolis than there are police in the metropolitan (…)

On Sunday 18 January, presidential elections were held in Portugal, with a second round scheduled for 8 February. A former leader of the Partido Socialista (Socialist Party, PS) and the leader of the neo-fascists will contest a run-off that confirms Portugal's shift to the right. The concentration of votes in the PS has relegated the left to new historic lows.
The gypsies must obey the law! (Chega billboard)
The combined votes for the right-wing government and the ultraliberal and (…)